FutureEverything announce 2012 program

Amon Tobin, Tim Hecker, Marcel Dettmann, Andy Stott and Matthew Herbert are among those booked for the annual festival in Manchester.

FutureEverything revealed the program for this year's conference in Manchester, taking place over four days in the middle of May.

FutureEverything regards itself a "festival of art, music and ideas"—something you hear a lot these days, though few events fit that description as truly as this one. For the past 15 years, the conference has brought together hundreds of professionals from various schools of science, art and technology to "explore the latest issues affecting today's digital culture." This year's theme is "FutureEverybody," a meditation on the unprecedented connectedness of today's population thanks to the internet and social media. This portion of the conference will take place at Museum of Science and Industry in Castlefield.

A 12-inch featuring reworks of the Afrobeat drummer is due out this April.

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Brazilian-born artist Amon Tobin started off under the pseudonym of Cujo in the mid 1990s, then living in the UK. Cujo lived for a series of singles, EPs, and remixes, peaking with the album Adventures In Foam, all originally on NINEBARecords, and appeared first in the US on the label Shadow Records. Around 1997, he switched to going by his own name, signed to the Ninja Tune label, where he has resided ever since.View the full artist profile